Re: Upgrade to 12.10 or stick to the stable 12.04 LTS?

At this point, I have mixed feelings and thoughts about upgrading to any non LTS Ubuntu release. It is clear that Ubuntu 12.10 will ship with Unity 6.6 which is very significantly much slower than Unity 5.6 in 12.04.x LTS. The other problem is determining whether I need the new features at all. I rarely use Ubuntu Unity nowadays. Most of the new features like previews, Amazon searches, new Unity lenses, desktop web apps, etc. require that I use the newer and much slower version of Ubuntu Unity.

As it stands right now, I can simply search for a specific Ubuntu PPAs and add the new software feature or capability to Ubuntu 12.04.1 64 bit LTS. If I upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04, 13.10 64 bit, then I will have to enable all of my favorite PPAs and do another major update.

Finally, I use VM Ware Workstation 9.0.0 64 bit. It is designed to work with Linux kernel 3.4.x. I am using Linux kernel 3.3.6-030306 right now. If I upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit, then it will ship with Linux kernel 3.5.x. VM Ware Workstation 9 will break without downloading and applying an unofficial third-party patch. I am not looking forward to doing this every 6 months.

LTS guarantees reliability and stability along with speed and performance. It also gets up to 5 years of support. Those are considerable factors to consider before upgrading to a non LTS release.

Re: Upgrade to 12.10 or stick to the stable 12.04 LTS?

I'm moving to 12.10 when the RC is available.
Clean install. New home. New everything. (I will obviously back up my data.)
I haven't really made up my mind whether it's going to be Lubuntu or Xubuntu for my oldish laptop.